Leaves- simple, heart shaped, oblique base, finely serrated, 1.25 to 3in long, 1.25 to 2.5in, dark green
Height 60 to 80 feet
Spread 35 to 50 feet
Alternate leaves
veins are pinnate
Thin brown or green branches
no thorns
Yellow Flowers pleasant fragrance, and showy summer flowering
London Planetree (Plantanus acerifolia)
Foliage: Deciduous broadleaf
75 to 100 feet tall
65 to 80 foot spread
spreading shape
bark flakes to reveal the white bark underneath
Zones 5 to 8
Partial shade to full sun
Wet to moist moisture level
Soil: sandy, clay, or loam
used for shade
also known as "bloodgood"
cross between American sycamore and oriental sycamore
Easily transplanted
Pests really hurt the tree
anthrosnoce
powdery Mildew
cankers
bacterial leaf scorch
sycamore lacebug
sycamore scale
American plum borer
All maples have
seeds that spin to the ground
(acer)
deciduous
Norway Maple (Acer platanoides)
broadly round crown
bark starts black and smooth then becomes rougher with age
Paired leaves
palmate leaves
marginal teeth with hair like edges
bright yellow-green flowers in the spring
fruit matures in to casing as above
has milky sap
reproduces by seed or through roots like an aspen
looks like sugar maple and red maple
Sugar maple
Zones 3 through 8
Ornamental
60 to 75 ft. tall
40 to 50 ft. spread
slow to medium growth
Full sun
various soils
oval shape leaves
causes syrup
great 4 firewood
doesn't do well with salt
prefers moist soil but slightly drought resistence
yellow green flower
winged seeds
Amur Maple (Acer ginnala)
zone 3 to 8
opposite buds
buds are reddish brown or lighter
1/8 in imbricate buds
3 lobe center lobe longest
Doubly sereated
Glaborus surface
1.5 to 3 in surface
Dark green above, light green beneath, bright red in fall
Yellow-white with a fragrance
paired samaras
fruit brown to red
rounded outline with multi-stem growth
prefers moist well drained soils
full sun to partial shade
Freeman Maple(Acer freemani)
40 to 60 ft tall
20 to 40 ft spread
Oval shape
does best in full sun
rich well drained soils
urban tolerant
3 to 5 lobed blades
more like silver maple than red maple
some cultivators are fruitless
2 joined samaras per stalk
zone 4 trough 8
Silver Maple(Acer Saccharinum)
Opposite sides
Simple leaf
5 plantae
lobed margins
deeply serrated
2.5 to 5 in long
Leaves- simple, heart shaped, oblique base, finely serrated, 1.25 to 3in long, 1.25 to 2.5in, dark green
Height 60 to 80 feet
Spread 35 to 50 feet
Alternate leaves
veins are pinnate
Thin brown or green branches
no thorns
Yellow Flowers pleasant fragrance, and showy summer flowering
London Planetree (Plantanus acerifolia)
Foliage: Deciduous broadleaf
75 to 100 feet tall
65 to 80 foot spread
spreading shape
bark flakes to reveal the white bark underneath
Zones 5 to 8
Partial shade to full sun
Wet to moist moisture level
Soil: sandy, clay, or loam
used for shade
also known as "bloodgood"
cross between American sycamore and oriental sycamore
Easily transplanted
Pests really hurt the tree
anthrosnoce
powdery Mildew
cankers
bacterial leaf scorch
sycamore lacebug
sycamore scale
American plum borer
All maples have
seeds that spin to the ground
(acer)
deciduous
Norway Maple (Acer platanoides)
broadly round crown
bark starts black and smooth then becomes rougher with age
Paired leaves
palmate leaves
marginal teeth with hair like edges
bright yellow-green flowers in the spring
fruit matures in to casing as above
has milky sap
reproduces by seed or through roots like an aspen
looks like sugar maple and red maple
Sugar maple
Zones 3 through 8
Ornamental
60 to 75 ft. tall
40 to 50 ft. spread
slow to medium growth
Full sun
various soils
oval shape leaves
causes syrup
great 4 firewood
doesn't do well with salt
prefers moist soil but slightly drought resistence
yellow green flower
winged seeds
Amur Maple (Acer ginnala)
zone 3 to 8
opposite buds
buds are reddish brown or lighter
1/8 in imbricate buds
3 lobe center lobe longest
Doubly sereated
Glaborus surface
1.5 to 3 in surface
Dark green above, light green beneath, bright red in fall
Yellow-white with a fragrance
paired samaras
fruit brown to red
rounded outline with multi-stem growth
prefers moist well drained soils
full sun to partial shade
Freeman Maple(Acer freemani)
40 to 60 ft tall
20 to 40 ft spread
Oval shape
does best in full sun
rich well drained soils
urban tolerant
3 to 5 lobed blades
more like silver maple than red maple
some cultivators are fruitless
2 joined samaras per stalk
zone 4 trough 8
Silver Maple(Acer Saccharinum)
Opposite sides
Simple leaf
5 plantae
lobed margins
deeply serrated
2.5 to 5 in long
Monoecious, red flowers
samara 1.5 to 2.5 in long
stout chestnut brown twig
buds reddish brown to green scaled
light grey bark
Smooth when young(bark)
can be 100ft tall
trunks usually split into subtrunks early on
Sources
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/handbook/th-3-125.pdf
http://hort.ufl.edu/database/documents/pdf/tree_fact_sheets/tilcora.pdf
www.treehelp.com/trees/london-planetree/index.asp
http://onlinegardener.com/trees/London%20plane%20tree.pdf
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/pubs/midatlantic/acpl.htm
http://www.arborday.org/treeguide/TreeDetail.cfm?id=14
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/handbook/th-3-85.pdf
http://plantfacts.osu.edu/pdf/0246-48.pdf
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/handbook/th-3-127.pdf
http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=5